According to our Romanian neighbors, Hunyadi's historical film series, which will be shown in Cannes under the title Rise of the Raven, is a bloody example of cultural appropriation.

An interesting article appeared on the portal of the old daily Adevărul, written by Matei Blănaru, a doctoral student at the University of Bucharest, entitled The film about János Hunyadi, Hungarian soft power and the dream of Viktor Orbán.

According to the author

the film will be embellished with foreign feathers, i.e. elements drawn from Romanian history and culture, at the Cannes premiere in October.

Blănaru assumes that the work, which also presents the childhood of János Hunyadi, and in which the characters speak in their own mother tongue, will certainly omit the Romanian language, even though it is common knowledge that the protagonist was Romanian. Because even if there are doubts about the identity of the father (according to some historians, he was the illegitimate child of Zsigmond Hunyadi of Luxemburg), his mother is undoubtedly Romanian, ergo:

his mother tongue could only be Romanian.

However, the film will depict him as a Hungarian native speaker - here is a blood-curdling example of cultural appropriation. As well as presenting him as a "Hungarian general", even though Romanians, Serbs and Hungarians consider him their hero, János Hunyadi was not Hungarian. Obviously, there will be other thefts here (where there are two, there will be three on the basis) - writes the author, but those will be revealed at the premiere - Mihály Lakatos, from the article of the Institute of Hungarian Unity, highlights from the article .

From the above, a short path leads to the conclusion that the Orbán government harbors antipathy towards the Romanian language, and an even shorter one to the fact that as a result - with the assistance of the Romanian decision-makers -

the young Hungarians in Romania will not learn the Romanian language, and this will seriously endanger all their futures,

and their presence on the Romanian labor market. See how a feature film can increase the unemployment rate! Mihály Lakatos states.